The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-31
An ABORTION COMMITTED
on A iUuFUL young COUN-
Try GIRL.
Who In, an Unwary Moment Fell
From the Paths Of Vir-
tue, and
DOUBLED HER SIN BY ATTEMPT.
ING TO KILL
The Fruit of TIA Nashville Painter
Commits Suicide Just as Joke
1t Proved a Serious One.
IsprorAL TO rHE ArpEAL.I

NAsHvn LIZ, TENN, May 30.-The
city is all torn up ever an abortion
Gaze, the facts OF which have just
come fully to light. Something like
wear ago there came to the city from
Middle Tennessee bright and hand
some yc ung woman of German pa
rentage, with fair hair, sparkling eyes
and peach and cream complexion.
She was nineteen years old and very
fair to look upon. She worked
about the city in various capacities
as clerk in eto!e, lady's ma d and go
on. Exactly how she fell from the
path OF virtue ia not known. Tia! she
did fall is fac, and when she discov-
cred her predicsment she Get about re
moving the fruit OF her sin before it
should see the light OF day. She confid.
ed her troubles TO another girl nau e1
Lena Schmidt, ar d while Fannie Brown
herself absolutely declines to say one
word about the affair, Lena talked TO
your reporter and told how III. V.
Bailey, a medical student, called to see
Fannie; how Fannie informed him of
her trouble, and how Bailey prescl ibed
drugs and told her to tske hip baths.
The desired result was not pro-
duced, and again Fannie called
Bailey to her assistance. This time,
according to Lena's statement, Biiley
told her That Der troubles could not
be relieved by medicine; that it
would require instruments. He told
what 10 get I'd Instructed her how to
use il, but refused to use it himself.
After getting the instruments and
finding che could not use them,
Fannie, by instruction OF Bailey,
called on DR.. Charles W. Patterson,
who, according 10 Lena's statement,
used the instruments, and called on
Fannie the next day and completed
the operation. H, v. Bailey, the med.
ical student, in an interview today said
that when Fannie called on him
she said she was four days past her
period, and that she had caught cold.
He prescribed for that complaint.
Subst quently Fannie want back and
told him fatty that che wanted an
abortion performed. Bailey says: "In
three months this was the fifth appli.
cation OF IT, same kind made to me.
l absolutely refused to aid in such a
matter. l had heard that such cases
had been treated by some physicians
in that neighborhood, and l deter
mined to find out who was in it."
Afer this he saw the girl, and at
her solicitation wrote out the name
of an instrument and told her
to get it, giving her instructions for its
use. A few days later she called on
him and eaid she could not use it, and
asked him to use it. He again refused,
but referred her to another physician.
This physician was out of the city and
he sent her to Dr.. Patterson. She
told him subsequently that Pate rson
had used the instrument end that lit
was all right" Bailey says further
that Dr.. Bfsntley told him that he
(Brantley) was with DR.. Patterson
when the final operation was
performed; that Patterson used the
instrument and handled the fotus.
ESPECIAL TO THE APPEAL.I
NASHVILLE, TRNN., May 30.-This
afternoon Jake Bsrnal, a painter, went
into drug store and asked for some.
thing that would kill him. The clerk
had bottle of aconite in his hand,
and jokingly said: "a drink of this
will kill you In five minutes" Then
he went on filing prescrip-
ton. Bsrnal walked behind the
counter, got the bottle OF acid while
the clerks back was turned and drank
an ounce of it. That he informed the
clerk that he had taken the dose. A
doctor was summoned, but the man
died in an hour. To his wife, who
wss sent for at once, be said he had
no intention of suicide. The whole
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